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Viewing densities of galaxy positions
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This is only marginal to OA since they won't be visiting other galaxies any time soon, but...

Here's my attempt to reproduce the SDSS image Orange Pie, using Celestia to view the results. The range in Z values is somewhat larger than the SDSS image, although the outermost whole green circle corresponds to the outer limit of theirs. Coloration is strictly by density, going from red for the least dense through yellow to white at the most dense.

I used http://skyserver.sdss.org/Casjobs to select galaxies in the appropriate RA and Dec ranges from the most recent SDSS data release, DR13, although I think they've only improved the processing of the data provided in DR7, not added anything new. The lower fan in the picture is "Stripe 82", the one which is used by the "Galaxy Zoo" project.

A Celestia "Addon" can be made available in a few days which includes this and some additional "fans" if anyone is interested.

   

Here's a picture showing the entire dataset for the same regions.

   
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Viewing densities of galaxy positions - by selden - 05-30-2017, 09:34 PM

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